Slash's mother, Ola Hudson, died on June 5, 2009 after a battle with lung cancer.

Hudson died at Saint John's Health Center in the Los Angeles municipality of Santa Monica. She was 62. In addition to Slash — whose real name is Saul Hudson — she is survived by another son, graphic artist Albion "Ash" Hudson, 41, as well as her ex-husband, English artist Anthony Hudson.

Slash's mother dated Bowie after her marriage broke up in the mid-1970s. "I really didn't like him that much, because he was the new guy in the house," Slash said of Bowie in a 1990 interview with Rolling Stone magazine. "I was really resentful."